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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-01-03, Page 5S -THS HURON EXPOSITOR, January 3, 1119S Local Each board -wants to protect turf Continued from page I been. slow going since each board wants to 'protect their turf." "We have to stop doing that and start working co- operatively," she said, citing an. example of when the Huron board tried to initiate joint services with the Huroni County • library system. The board suggested to the county that some libraries be incorporated into some of the schools as a way of reducing costs to the county. They said no and arc presently in the process of shutting down six libraries, said Brown. "There are many ways we can share," said Brown of the three boards. An exarnple cited by Brown was in the arca of transportation. The three boards presently share bus services and Brown questioned whether three different transportation managers were necessary. "We are going to look at all of these things." But it all comes down to saving money :end easing the burden on the • Huron County taxpayer. "There is Only one taxpayer and the taxpayer alone can't fund separate systems," she said, pointing out that the general trend is moving towards sharing services bet- ween municipalities. Over the past few months and into 1996, the board has been and will continue to look at ways of cutting a few. mil- lion dollars from its .budget. Every single year, more of the burden is placed on the tax- payer as . grants from the government decrease, said Brown. "It's not getting any better. It's gettin ;;far worse. We're cutting as much as we can but taxes still have to go up. There is not much we can. do," she added. "It's a sweet way for thc government to download on the taxpayer and the school boards look like the bully." "Something has to be done," she said, adding that the Huron board has been fighting for reforms in the way education is financed. "We can't leave it the way it is; there's got to be an easier way." Brown explained that the effects of grant cuts are greater on small hoards like Huron who don't have a large assessment base. But despite the financial struggles at board Icvcl, Brown believes, and the tests show, that the board continues to "deliver an excellent education with fewer dollars." On provin- cial tests, students in Huron County have tested above the provincial average and Brown said she felt that students who continued on with post-secon= dary school education did very well also. The board is also on the "leading edge of technology." employees." Brown stated fiat the,. -board • _ And -the. board Continues to. received infrastructure grants get cooperation from its for computers and other such . employees as • it has started A technology. "Students have- to new cost management program. be computer literate or they • The board is looking to won't survive," said Brown of employees to give ideas on our fast -paced computer world. ways the board can save "But I wish we could have money. Brown stated that sug- nicer facilities," said Brown, as gestions have already been cuts are made in this area first madeand may be looked at as but "we've come to the point the board continues with where we can't cut anymore." budget talks. Shecited Wingham high school "Dramatic changes will be as an example. The school's taking place," Brown said of science labs need upgrading but 1996, as many of the uncertain - this work h;' . been put off for tics in 1995 will likely be the past 'wo or three years. answered. But it all comes "It's frustrating that we don't down to the students of Huron get the grants to do that sort of County, said Brown: "In the thing. But we do well at face of funding cuts, we must keeping up our buildings. leave the kids with quality Safety must be considered and education that I think they are we want a pleasant looking getting in Huron County. I building for the kids." . don't want to lose any of that. "It's amazing that we have They're the reason we are a done as well with what we board of education." have," Brown continued. "We have a great group of teachers out there. They have been very co-operative with us." She made mention of the cooperation they had around the Social Contract which ends in March. "It wasn't easy on any of us bus we had good cooperation from all of our Thousands attend Homecoming Continued from page 1 in British Columbia. ship, the first time the event She won the hardware with has ever been in this neck of her final throw, which soared the woods. Salina' Mussani of - an amazing three -and -a -half Heron Point dethrones dcfen- metres farther than her ding champ Andrea Lavelle of previous personal best. London by a single stroke AUGUST. 16 three-day, 54 -hole event, by Huron County beekeepers are shooting a 218,'livc-over-par. being financially stung by The two -15 -year-olds finish mites, a tiny parasite now well • ahead of their nearest menacing the honey industry firsts and indirectly affecting many JULY 26 other crops. The recent spell of heat and Bill Ferguson of I Icnsall says extreme humidity has been bad there were 100,000 hives in the news for chickens, across the province five years ago; but province and in the area. John only 80,000 now. Maaskant of Holmesvillc, "I've lost three bee yards," chairman of the Ontario Chick says Bill Ross of RR 4 en Marketing .Board, estimates Seaforth. "That's a lot of honey 'provincial Tot daeretsr. lost lost, maybe 12,000 lbs. It is 500,000 birds during the hcat very serious' and nobody has wave. He lost 10,000 chickens, any idea what to do about it. *« roughly 15 to 20 per cent of hij flock. The Bistro Restaurant in ` Still, its better than in Scaforth has wood whcrc its Chicago where an estimated big Maio Street window should. 457 people died because of the be, after a car plows into it heat between July 14 and 21. before sun -up Saturday mor - The London weather office ning• says the humidex hit 49C in Leaving the scene . and this area on Friday, July 14, careless driving charges are the day after a vicious wind- lending. storm ripped through Goderich. AUGUST 23 Arca farmers, without The Scaforth Library decides working compressors; lose to move west and across Main livestock in the power outages Stu, into the now vacant that ensue. forrTi'er Stewart Brothers store, AUGUST 2 while major renovations arc Former Scaforth District High done to its historic building. School basketball star Ron • * * * Vercruyzen returns to Europe Construction is on target for for his third season with Aalst the scheduled opening of a new in Belgium's First Division. gymnasium and classrooms at Now 27-ycars-old, 6'11' and St. Columban School in two about 245 pounds, Ron is in weeks. the arca visiting his parents The 5428,000 project was near Walton. undertaken by thc Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic School AUGUST 9 Board as part of its plan to re - Thousands of former Seaforth align students between St. and arca residents descend on the town for highly successful, Homecoming' 95 ccicbratiorf . All generations scented to enjoy the four-day event and some Scaforth natives returned from as far afield as British Columbia, Bermuda, Nova Scotia and Atlanta, Georgia. Volunteers with 13 combines glean about. 225 tonnes of wheat from 114 acres northeast of Scaforth in the heat and humidity for this area's annual donation to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. The national relief or- ganization uses it 10 help feed the world's starving. The Seaforth harvest remains the largest of 65 similar projects in Ontario. « ** A well-known area piper and • past president of Scaforth . Branch, 156 of the Royal Canadian Legion dies. . .Peter Malcolm, was a former member of the famed Black Watch Regiment of 51st High- land Division of the Scottish Territorial Army. Ile was taken prisoner at Dunkirk, and spent the rest of World War II as a German prisoner of war. He was 79, and had lived in Scaforth for many years. « *« A student at Seaforth District High School, 19 -year-old Lori Ferric of the Brussels arca, wins a bronze medal in the discuss at the Canadian Junior Track and Field Championships championship at Brampton. The coaches of the new provin- cial champs arc Kathy O'Reilly, Janet Buchanan, Georgina Reynolds, Sandy Burns and Heidi Elliott. SEPTEMBER 6 A plow about as old as Canada, made in an Eg • mondville shop, is now mounted on the fence at the fairgrounds, donated to the • Scaforth 'Agricultural Society by Harold .Coleman of John Street. - . The - horse-drawn walking plow with steel grips and wooden handles was hand - forged by John Gray and was - first displayed at a plowing match in Harpuncey .in 1864,. about the time the Fathers of Confederation were forging the Charlottetown Accord, which soon led tounion in British. North America. • ** Charlene Townsend of Seaforth is chosen Queen of the Furrow at the annual Huron County Plowing Match. * *« Huron County's first Roman Catholic high school, St. Anne's, opens on schedule at Clinton. A former principal of St. James School in Seaforth, Ray Contois, is now the prin- cipal at St. Anne's.. SEPTEMBER 13 A litter of eight abandoned puppies is found shivering in sub -zero temperatures on the doorstep of the Seaforth Veterinary Clinic, which doesn't have the honey or resources to care for them long. All but an ill one are adopted within 24 hours of the story hitting the headlines in The Huron Expositor. Columban and St. Patrick's * * * School at Dublin. Next month, children in Kindergarten through Grade 3 will go to school at Dublin, while pupils in Grades 4. through 8 will attend St. Columban to take advantage of the unproved gym. AUGUST 30 A frantic five-hour search through mature- cornfields by parents, provincial police, lour lire departments and 150 volunteers .cods with good news - as 22 -month old Aaron Martin is found in good •health, sleeping at the edge of a bush near his home at Lot 13, ('onc. 2 and 3 of Tuckcrsmith Township on Monday evening. He went hissing at about 4:30 in the afternoon and was found shortly atter .10 p.nt. * * * Big hlaics keep arca firefighters very busy Wednes- day afternoon. • An explosion and lire kill 118 pigs and causes an es- timated 5200,000 in damages at the RR 5 Scaforth faun► of Jim Ryan in McKillop Township. While that was happening another two fires breakout in Hibbert Township near Starlit, in a vacant Karn owned by Jim Butson iii1J..ot 27, ('onc. 9), and in a passing truck and trailer that were completely destroyed, driven by a Clinton area Haut. The Scaforth bantams sweep to five wins and a Provincial Women's Softball Assoc iation Scaforth Police Chief Hal Claus returns to duty riding a bicycle and wearing a helmet, after recovering from a major heart operation in May. Chief Claus says it makes him feel better, helps reduce stress, saves money for tax- paycrs, and helps set an example, with . new provincial bike helmet legislation soon set to come in force. ««« Brad Walsh of Stratford wins his fourth Men's Invitational at d►c Scaforth Golf and County Club by shooting a four -under - par 66. He is planning to soon move to Egmondvillc. SEPTEMBER 20 Sieve Murray, 46, is charged with the second-degree murder of his 16 -year-old adoptive daughter, Mistic, now missing four months, since May. The Goc:erich-area man, who lived in St. Columban with his family for many years, - is renianded in custody at the •Walkerton Jail, pending a bail hearing. • ««« Scaforth Council scales down scheduled improvements to its historic Carnegie • library buil- ding on Main Street after the lowest of six bids comes in about 590,000 over budget estimates. Even then, the town must dip into its reserve fund to proceed with the scaled-down improvements. Council accepts a re -sub- mitted low bid of 5348,175.94 from GDL Construction of Dashwood. SEPTEMBER 27 A veteran of the Seaforth sporting scene, Joyce McClure of McKillop- 'township, becomes only the fourth mem- - ber in the 53-yearhistory of the Wester Ontario Athletic Association to 'be honoured with a lifetime membership, at the Wingham-based or- ganization's annual meeting. « *« Guest Gail Urc gives a moving and personal account' on the importance of health care volunteers, speaking to . 175 district delegates, of .the.. Hospital Auxiliaries' As- sociation ssociation of Ontario at Seaforth Community Hospital. . « «* Editor Tim Cumming leaves Continued on page 9 ELE L I Fern • Horne • Commercial Pole Um Construction 345-2447 RIC E Dealer of FILTER OEXPEkT STRAY VOLTAGE SPECIALIST McMaster Siemon AINSURANCE BROKERS INC. A N HMIS IFSASI,�A��l1��7-(�(��vRj/}/A/��/jV I IL •• \L®•VlMIS CII L - LAME llHU UNC1L 68 Ontario Rd. 348-9159 Mitchell • 1800.561-0183 Allan Carter, Broker • Home • Auto • Comrinerclal • Farm 522-0399 Seaforth 01-800-265-0959 Strathroy TOWN OF SEAFORTH NOTICE Re: SK KS • In the past month a num : er of rabid skunks have been destroyed in Seaforth. • Residents should exercise caution when skunks or any loose animal is cited at this time of year. • Please keep your children and pets under watch when out of doors. • As skunks are looking for food, the animal control officer has advised the following: 1, Do not place bird feed where it is accessible to skunks _ 2. Keep openings to sheds, garages, etc., CLOSED • Also, ensure that all of your dogs) have received their ra bi in the past 12 months: • Don't forget to register your dog for 1996 at 4. Sae 1.pll offiteatr lain Stjet... . South, Seaforth. A late fee of $15.00 will be charged to the owner of any dog found without a valid 1996 Dog Tag after March 15th; 1996. (cats and ccination 1